Count on healthy cookies recipe to work wonders for your body

Butter cookies. Doesn’t the name itself make you drool? Often categorized as “crisp cookie” due to their texture, these delicious things are made of butter, flour and sugar. Though these healthy snacks come without any flavouring, they might also have flavours of vanilla, chocolate, and coconut, and/or topped with sugar crystals. They have a variety of shapes, such as circles, squares, ovals, rings, ad pretzel-like forms. The appearances may also vary from marbled, checkered, or plain. If you’ve already started going “nom nom nom” in your imagination, well, we have good news! Simple butter cookies recipe can be easily tried at home, by following a simple recipe. Give it a try, and you can thank us later. 

The ingredients required are as follows:

1. 1 cup butter
2. 1 cup white sugar
3. 1 egg
4. 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
5. ¼ teaspoon salt
6. 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, the butter and white sugar should be creamed together until it is light and fluffy. Following this, beat in the egg, and then stir the vanilla. Thereafter, the flour and salt is to be combined, and stirred into the sugar mixture. Cover the dough, and let it chill for at least one hour. After that, chill cookie sheets. 
2. The oven should be preheated to 400 degrees F. the dough should be pressed out onto ungreased, chilled cookie sheets. 
3. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until lightly golden at the edges. Remove cookie sheets to cool on wire racks. 

With these a few extracts and about 10 minutes of cooking time, you can enjoy these mouth-watering yet healthy cookies recipe with a steaming cup of tea. Once you bake your butter cookies, make sure you store them in a re-saleable container or plastic bag at room temperature, for not for than 4 days preferably. Once you whip up these delightful desserts, you can also garnish them with colorful sprinkles or chocolate chips. They can also be given a sophisticated turn with pine nuts, sesame seeds, grains of sea salt, etc. 

So, no more futile cravings for butter cookies, or having to rush to the neighborhood store to pick them up. Look up for butter cookies recipe without egg, in case that’s your preference. You can make quick and easy butter cookies at home by following this recipe, and enjoy the fruits (well, cookies in this case) of your own labour quite literally! 

Shivani Shetty is a nutrition and wellness expert and offers advice on healthy eating and the best snacking options for everyone.